x----- C H A P.q.. Epifle to the Thcffalonians. VEtt. 15 Law, when the Lord came downe vpon Mount Sinai ;the p voice of the Trumpet was heard exceeding loud ; fo it may bee here. Curious enquiries about the matter of' ir, or meanes of found, let vs omit as friuolous. The whole fernes to exprethe the terrour, maicfly, and glory of Chrif}, at his fecond comming to iudgemcnt ; attended with thousands, omen a thousandtimes tenthoufand .of' his glorious Angels ; with his mighty voice (b king Heauen and Earth ; and by the powerof his Trumpe rai- fing the dead our of their graues, and prefenring them all at his Seat ofludgernent. No maruell, if the wicked then run to the Rocker to hide them, and to the Mountaines to fall vpon therm; his cornming being with filch waiefy and glo- rie. The vies follow. And ftrf}, it (ernes for confutation of' chore godleffe dockers, whom S. Peter fpeakes of ; that, in regard of fo long delay of his comming, grow to deride and fcoffe at the Promife. Such Atheills all ages .haue afforded : would God our owne times were free ; men that labour to quench in themfelues thofe notices of' a Iudgement to come, that the Lord hath written in their hearts with the point of a Diamond ; And, which pall'eth all meafure of Atheilme and prophaneneffe, haue not ftucke to rea- fonagainfl this Principle of' our Chrif}ian Faith. Will you heave how ? S. Peters Mockers thus dilputed : All things haue continued in like floe without alteration , euer fince the Cre,tion: Wee fee the fame circumuolution of Heauens , vicTflitude of Times and Season=. Ergo. Ayr Now,fi ft (midi Peter) their ground is false, their owne hearts being witnel %s, faue that they haue wil- fully (hut their eyc againfl the light of the Truth : For they cannot bee ignorant, that the Earth once perished by Waters, that DJuge hauing ref}imony, not one)! from Moles, but cues from Heathens thenfelues. Befides, they cannot best acknnwledgc a isetafible decay, and de- clining of all the creatures from their originali f}rength Z and 337 p Exo.19.6 zo. q n Pet,343,4. 5:to io.
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